Genetic diversity, population structure, and historical demography of a highly vagile and human‐impacted seabird in the Pacific Ocean: The red‐tailed tropicbird, Phaethon rubricauda

• Published in: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
• Main Authors: Varela, Andrea I., Brokordt, Katherina, Ismar, Stefanie M. H., Gaskin, Chris P., Carlile, Nicholas, O'Dwyer, Terence, Adams, Josh, VanderWerf, Eric A., Luna‐Jorquera, Guillermo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2021
• Subjects: Close Islands; Pacific
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/50584/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/50584/1/aqc.3471.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3471

Many seabird breeding colonies have recovered from heavy anthropogenic disturbance after conservation actions. The widely distributed red-tailed tropicbird, Phaethon rubricauda, was used as a model species to assess potential anthropogenic impacts on the genetic diversity of breeding colonies in the...